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Commander fit for business again: SA government By Suzanne Tindal, ZDNet.com.au March 26, 2008 URL: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/Commander-fit-for-business-again-SA-government/0,130061791,339287634,00.htm
The South Australian government has given the go-ahead for state agencies to resume business with Commander subsidiary Volante, after it advised them to stop using the company as a supplier for one of its contracts earlier this year.
The suspension came after the government put out an advisory which cautioned agencies to stop negotiating with Volante — an ICT infrastructure and services company — on one of its three contracts due to "uncertainty about [its] ability to supply", a spokesperson for the state's Minister for Infrastructure Patrick Conlon said. Volante has contracts with the SA government for client computing and server equipment, distributed computing support services and as a Microsoft large account reseller. It was the latter contract which was in doubt, according to a Commander spokesperson. However, the government has now "conducted due diligence" and has informed agencies they can resume activities with the company, the Minister's spokesperson said. "Commander confirms that we have a productive relationship with the South Australian government and continue to service the three key contract areas on a business as usual basis," Amanda Lacaze, CEO of Commander Communications, said in a statement. In October last year, Commander suspended its shares from the stock market as it engaged the services of ABN AMRO to consider a sale. In December, the company appointed Lacaze as its new CEO, and January saw the announcement of a turnaround plan which involved cutting 600 staff — sparking an investigation by the Workplace Ombudsman — and the selling-off of non-core businesses to focus on high-margin parts of the company.
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